The Bergdahl Story

With 2 others watching him/protecting him around the clock.

What a shame.

 

Desert your post from a war you no longer believe in, get rewarded with desk job. #winning

 

thing has gone full on stupid. The reporting acting like the Pentagon is pushing this is patently absurd. This thing is being shoved down throats via the SecDef who's taking orders from chief clown.

 

Feds: Obama Broke Law with Bergdahl Swap

President Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he released five Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday.

“[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” the GAO report said. “In addition, because DOD used appropriated funds to carry out the transfer when no money was available for that purpose, DOD violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.”

The GAO rejected the idea that the action was legal and sidestepped the Obama team’s suggestion that the law is unconstitutional.

“It is not our role or our practice to determine the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes,” the report says. “In our view, where legislation has been passed by Congress and signed by the President, thereby satisfying the bicameralism and presentment requirements in the Constitution, that legislation is entitled to a heavy presumption in favor of constitutionality.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/385979/feds-obama-broke-law-bergdahl-swap-joel-gehrke

 

Who's going to step up and prosecute?

 

Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich are available.

 

I love tribalism.

 

Bowe Bergdahl to face desertion charges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who disappeared from his base in Afghanistan in 2009 but was released last year in a prisoner swap with the Taliban, will be charged with desertion, according to NBC.

The television network, citing senior defense officials, said the charges could come within a week.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-armys-bergdahl-face-desertion-charges-nbc-153701502.html

 

I take it the investigation went poorly for him. Seemed like everyone who knew him over there said he deserted.


I'll never understand deserting in a hostile foreign land. That's just moronic.

 

and I'm still pissed that we traded some legit bad guys to get him back.

 

Considering the civilians and such we haven't traded for in the past... ya. I don't really get it.

 

exactly. We'll trot out old lines about negotiating with terrorists when it's a journalist, but we actually traded for this deserter. The president drove this train and it was pure politics.

 

Didn't this advert attention away from the VA scandal hitting the fan

 

yes

 

Not if you're sympathetic

 

Pissed doesn't begin to describe my angst

 

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/06/04/leave-no-soldier-behind-no-exceptions/

 

Surely it was just coincidence

 

Desertion is punishable by death, no?

 

I realize this could just be due to some limitation of my imagination, but I can't fathom how that works either. There is nothing worse in humanity than that sort of theofascist freakdom.